(July 19, 2015 at 7:54 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:cheers!(July 19, 2015 at 6:39 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Evidence... none!
Pretty impressive response, poca.
Not that I agree with your points, of course, but you get full props for actually addressing the material in SOME fashion.
It's too much stuff for a decent point-by-point response...
Perhaps some other day... some other thread...
(July 19, 2015 at 7:54 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Have you noticed that almost no one else does?I have.... they were waiting for me to reply!
They're cool like that, sometimes.
(July 19, 2015 at 7:54 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: You're better than this forum. I know you're a mod with certain bennies and status, etc. but you would benefit from changing to CAF. Seriously.I tried once, remember? They wouldn't let me register.
Besides, I'm not interested in talking about catholicism in particular... I put all religions at the same level.
(July 19, 2015 at 7:54 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: You're slumming here. This claptrap is beneath you intellectually.There are days...
(July 19, 2015 at 7:54 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: And btw, Josephus was WAAAAAAAAY too removed. Really? Learn how professional historians think, okay?
Care to tell me how Josephus was claimed to be an eye-witness of the resurrection?
Or did he just write about a group of people called "chrestians"?
And didn't his writings get added on to a bit later by some christian scribe?
Can those professional historians tell us which bits are accurate accounts from Josephus' lifetime and which were added later?
Even the qur'an is a better attestation of the life of Mohammed, than any of those you listed... and yet, you don't believe in the story about the archangel seeing nomad arab, holder of a harem, leader of the tribe that conquered the Arabian peninsula, last prophet of allah.
And this arab was much closer, in time, to the events of the NT and yet, even he did not believe in the divinity of Jesus... some degree of prophethood, yes... but not the messiah.
You don't believe him; he doesn't believe you; I don't believe you both!